woaitsaryan / regit

regit is a CLI tool written in Golang to rewrite Git histories

Regit

CLI tool to manage git repositories and histories

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Regit is a CLI tool written in Go that allows you to rewrite git histories. Changing ownership, timestamps, even commit messages to follow conventions, all in a single command

Warning

Using regit multiple times might cause object corruption in your git repository. Please use it after backup up your .git folder.

Installation

Windows

python3 -m pip install --user git-filter-repo

winget install regit

macOS

git clone https://github.com/woaitsAryan/regit && cd regit

make setup

Linux

git clone https://github.com/woaitsAryan/regit && cd regit

make setup

Docs

Regit currently supports 5 commands:

1. regit recommit: Reads all the commit diffs and writes better commit messages, then commits them again.
2. regit own: Makes you the author of all the commits.
3. regit blame <name> <email>: Makes the user specified by <name> and <email> the author of all the commits.
4. regit nuke /path/to/file: Removes the file specified from all the commits in the repository.
5. regit retime <duration>: Rewrites the commit times of all the commits in the repository to be of x hours in the past, evenly spaced. Can be any number of hours.
6. regit rewind <duration>: Rewinds the commit times of all the commits to be pulled x hours in the past. Can be any number of hours.
7. regit fastforward <duration>: Fast forwards the commit times of all the commits to be pushed x hours in the future. Can be any number of hours.

Common Flags

The following flags can be used with any command:

• --source or -s: Specify the path to the git repo. If not specified, the current directory is used.
• --branch or -b: Specify a branch.
• --verbose or -v: Enable verbose output. This will print additional details about the operations being performed.
• --quiet or -q: Enable quiet output. This will suppress most output, printing only essential information.

Credits

Regit uses git-filter-repo under the hood to rewrite git histories. I would like to thank the authors and contributors of git-filter-repo for their work.